Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-14
A GRAND SUCCESS.
THE OAK PARK TRACT SALE AT
TRACTS MANY BUYERS,
sacramento-Prices Brought
List Of Purchasers-Etc.

One of the grandest auction sales that
| has ever taken place in this section of the
State was that of the Oak Park Addition
yesterday. A free train and free buses
were run from the city to the grounds. and
fully five hundred people were in attend
ance, among them many strangers. The
tract lies short distance southeast of the
city limits. A band of music was in at
tendance and the sale was conducted by
Killip & Co., auctioneers, from San Fran
cisco.
a large platform was erected for the auc.
tieneers and clerks, upon which was dis
played an immense map of the tract. Just
before the sale commenced lunch was
served free to all, as was also an abundance
of fruit in great variety.
E. K. Alsip called the assemblage TO or
der, and said they were about to commence
the first land sale by auction within the
northern citrus belt. and they expected the
citizens of Sacramento 10 come forward
and make it a success. They had spent
$1,000 in cutting up the tract, advertising
it, ETC.. and they wanted to demonstrate to
the world that such things were possible in
this section, where it was an indsputed
fact that the soil was better, land cheaper,
and the climate equal to that of any other
portion of the State. This piece was IN
doubtedly one of the best in the vicinity of
the Capital. He said slurs had been
thrown out by certain parties that
he and Mr.. Lewis did not intend
to build the road. He gave his guarantee
and his word as man, and no one
could do more, that the road would be
commenced within the specified time and
completed inside of eighteen months. He
said there was gentleman on the grounds
who owns the right to good storage bat
terry of electricity, one that has been
tried and proved success, He is willing
to put that in and take stock in the road
for his plant Another man has offered to
subscribe $50, 900 to our capital stock and
more if we want it. This is the encourage
ment we are receiving and the road is an
assured fact. To-day we desire to dispose
of 200 lots. They are desirable for build
ing purposes and he who BUYS at this time
will double his money in two years Sac
ramento in the near future must become a
great city. She can extend but in one di-
rection and they must build upon these lots
and beyond them.
At the close of his remarks Mr.. Alsip
Sa.N hC oNolAOo " NC
Whittier, of the law firm of Brusie
& McWhirter, who was q newcomer,
and one who has travelled extensively
Upon being introduced Mr.. McWhirter
said: When | reflect upon the cause of
your being here to-day, | feel that the wear
of your jubilee has come. This gathering
marks an epoch that occurs once in the
lifetime of every successful city, and if YOU
are as much in earnest as you seem, it will
prove to be the period of the grand climax
IN your history. It means new enterprises
and new departures for Sacramento. 1t
means that you have awakened, at last, to
the fact that the world is coming west, and
that from Hell's Gate to the Golden Gate
the people of the Union are
ALIVE WITH EXCITEMENT
Regarding California. Hot summers, long
and desperate winters and droughts and
famines are driving the population like a
mighty army to the Pacific coast. Having
recently come from Tennessee, where | had
been Assistant Commissioner of Agricult-
ure and immigration for the past four
years, felt when ! entered your State from
the southern boundary that was prepared
to judge the soil from an agricultural stand
point When | arrived at Los Angeles |
was exhausted from having had to travel
through desert all the way from FL Paso,
and supposed / had at last reached
the land of promise; Cd the other
hand, while l saw 3 busy and bust
ling city, l found no manufactures,
no pronounced commercial enterprises,
and in the country round about that place
| failed to observe that agricultural devel-
opment which successful city is bound to
have if it is not exclusively manufactur-
ing point. After inspecting other portions
of Stafa 7 loaataS ~ ~ !,
cause 1 was convinced it offered more in
ducements in the way of health, agricult-
ure and general prosperity than any sec
ton of the world | had ever seen. APP
plause.l 1 say this, fellow-c citizens, after
having spent my life in Tennessee and
Kentucky-States whose bluegrass region
has been called
THE GARDEN or THE EARTH.
In those States are lands as rich as Persian
valleys, as fertile as Indian gardens and as
soft as Andalusian plains; but here, you
not only duplicate all that, but add To it
with climate more vitalizing than the
Oldest Bourbon, and crown il with g scenery
so beautiful that it looks like God might
have smiled as he created it, and as if the
smile might have crystallized into the land
scape before you. [Applause.l Several
years ago when stood in the midst of the
California exhibit at the great New Orleans
exposition and saw her wonderful re-
sources, with thousands Of others / was
filed with desire TO live among you.
Knowing how young you are, and how far
away we considered you from the old States,
we wereamazed TO find in that exhibit your
manufactured and raw materials placed
side by side with the selected and best
ideas of the age in carnival of embodied
thoughts and wilderness of improved
machinery, that stood as gigantic object
lessons before the eyes of the assembled
nations. We then realized your wonder
full development and
YoUR GRAND POSSIBILITIES.
We felt the truth of the prophesy that
your harbors opening open Asia were to
receive the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, ,
and that you were already beginning TO
send your argosies of costly freight to all
the ports of the broad Pacific. We, then,
for the first time discovered that there was